Our library in Hewett Centre is open every Sunday after service during Coffee Hour in Hewett Centre, and our Library Team offers related reading lists based on the topic of Sunday service. Here is their list for the upcoming service featuring Rev. Shawn Gauthier, on Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 11 a.m. All are welcome in Hewett Centre after the Sunday service to check out some books and to have coffee and conversation.
VanU library books related to this Sunday’s sermon:
1. A Brief History of the Unitarian Church of Vancouver 1909-1979, by Peggy Woods, 1979, 288 WOO [Signed by the author].
2. Life and Transcendence: Unitarian Sermons by Rev. Steven Epperson, by Steven Epperson, 2019, 288 EPP [Written by a UCV minister].
3. Complete Sermons 1956 – 2018, by Phillip Hewett, 2019, 288 HEW [Sermons of a UCV minister on a DVD].
4. Churchworks: A Well-Body Book for Congregations, by Anne Odin Heller, 1999, 254.09 HEL [From LibaryThing: “Accessible and ingenious, this handbook uses the human body as a metaphor for the congregation and provides essential advice for growing and sustaining a healthy church.”].
5. Salted with Fire: Unitarian Universalist Strategies for Sharing Faith and Growing Congregations, by Scott W. Alexander, 1994, 289.13 ALE [Published by Skinner House Books].
6. Belonging: The Meaning of Membership, by the Unitarian Universalist Commission on Appraisal, 2001, 289.1 UNI [From the Introduction in the book’s online PDF: “What is the meaning of membership, or more thoroughly, what are the meanings of membership? What is it that people seek when they affiliate with our congregations? What is it that congregations owe to their membership, and members owe to their congregation? Whom do we include as members of congregations?”].
7. Planning For Growth & Vitality For Smaller & Midsize Congregations: Congregational Team Planning Guide, 288 UUA/CUC.
8. The Welcoming Congregation, edited by the Rev. Scott W. Alexander, 1990, 289.1 ALE [By the Unitarian Universalist Association. From LibraryThing, being from the first page: “This manual, prepared by the UUA’s Office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns, is designed to help interested congregations become more welcoming places for the gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in their midst and in the wider community”].
9. Black Pioneers in a White Denomination, by Mark D. Morrison-Reed, 1994, 289.1 MOR [Published by Skinner House Books. From GoodReads: “Portraits of racism in liberal religion tells the stories of two pioneering black ministers. Includes accounts of some of today’s more integrated UU congregations and biographical notes on past and present black Unitarian, Universalist and UU ministers.”].
10. The Free Church in a Changing World, by Dana McLean Greeley, 1963, 288 UUA [From GoodReads: “Reports of six commissions appointed in 1959 by Dana McLean Greeley (while president of American Unitarian Association) to survey, evaluate, and recommend possible future directions of UU congregations”].
11. Religion among the Unitarian Universalists: Converts in the Stepfathers’ House, by Robert B Tapp, 1973, 288 TAP [Quantitative studies in social relations].